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String of Pearls: A Greatest Hits Collection

album by Prairie Oyster

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ7623987 ↗
Source-derived summary

String of Pearls: A Greatest Hits Collection is the first greatest hits album by Canadian country music group Prairie Oyster. It was released by ViK. Recordings on June 20, 2000. The album peaked at number 15 on the RPM Country Albums chart.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “String of Pearls: A Greatest Hits Collection” is album by Prairie Oyster. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through String, Pearls and Greatest, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2000—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2000. For this dossier, String, Pearls and Greatest is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “album by Prairie Oyster” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7623987. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2000.

Critical limits

Titles can refer to several editions, objects or performances, making precise identification essential before interpretation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “String of Pearls: A Greatest Hits Collection”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow String of Pearls: A Greatest Hits Collection primary sources, String of Pearls: A Greatest Hits Collection archive and String research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “String of Pearls: A Greatest Hits Collection” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.